tom80H
June 17, 2022, 5:17pm
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There’s been the occasional suggestion asking for a way to import certain criteria or “collection definition”. Though they’ve never gained much attention.
Here’s a relevant use case:
Plex does not show the number of IMDB votes for specific titles.
IMDB lists can be exported into Excel, with one of the resulting fields representing the number of IMDB votes per title.
In Excel, I could automatically classify titles based upon their current number of votes.
I would upload this “tag” to Plex, where the relevant titles would be tagged accordingly.
I could then filter or set up a collection for the desired titles.
And of course, this w…
It would be nice to be able to create a Smart playlist from a CSV.
I know rule groups would be a hurdle, but an easier place to start would be say - We have a CSV with three columns.
It could be three columns to represent the three pieces of a smart playlist - Criteria such as Album Title / Artist Title / whatever, Contains / Is / Is Not / whatever, search term.
This would allow people to take lists like Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all time, dump them into the CSV format Plex wants, the…
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